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If you see just one terrorists-take-over-the-White-House thriller this year, make it White House Down. But even if you saw the dour and bloody Olympus Has Fallen, usave car rentals which has a LOT in common with White House Down, you owe it to yourself to check out Roland 2012 Emmerich s preachy, goofy, usave car rentals over-the-top take on Die Hard at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
From the earnest but earnestly funny president in jeopardy (Jamie Foxx) who doesn t like bad guys yanking on his sneakers ( Take your hands OFF my Jordans! ) to the eye-rolling usave car rentals image of a child having a Les Miz big-flag-on-the-barricades moment, White House Down is a corker, real competition for Fast Furious 6 as the dumbest fun you ll have at the movies this summer.
Channing Tatum is Cale, the war vet/D.C. cop who can t convince Maggie Gyllenhaal to let him in the Secret Service. usave car rentals Cale has to content himself with guarding the Speaker of the House (Richard Jenkins) and calling in favors to get his daughter (Joey King) a White House tour.
Then we see who Emmerich cast as the head of the White House Secret Service detail James Woods. There s on the nose casting, and then there s casting Woods as a potentially volatile villain TOO on the nose.
We go through the same Olympus has Fallen usave car rentals hyper-professional usave car rentals mercenary assault on the various security agencies that allows bad guys to crash into the White House. And we see Cale, the guy not good enough to get into the Secret Service, charge to the rescue of his daughter, the president and the world.
Nicolas Wright plays a scene-stealing usave car rentals White House tour guide who sometimes interrupts the mayhem to share a little White House lore, or lecture the bad guys on the priceless artifacts they re wrecking. Emmerich makes sure there s an Independence Day joke, and if that s too subtle, he blows up the Capital. Shared plot aside, White House Down does stuff Olympus Has Fallen couldn t afford to.
Whatever messages they want to shoehorn in tumble usave car rentals aside in a blizzard of bullets, bombs, missiles and jokes. This is a popcorn movie, with an adequate hero, a comical presidential sidekick, a passable usave car rentals villain and too many deadlines, plotlines and punchlines to ever allow it to turn giddy.
But at least they were going for giddy. As Olympus taught us, playing this sort of assault with a straight face is downright dispiriting. usave car rentals You kind of need terrorists offering their buzzcut leader a slice of his retirement cake to set the tone.
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